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Psystar Crushed In Court
We've been following the case of Mac cloner Psystar for some time now. Apple was just handed a summary judgement over Psystar, and as usual Groklaw has the scoop. Here is the order (PDF), though PJ supplies it in text form at the link above. "Psystar just got what's coming to them in the California case. ... It's a total massacre. Psystar's first-sale defense went down in flames. Apple's motion for summary judgment on copyright infringement and DMCA violation is granted. Apple prevailed also on its motion to seal. Psystar's motion for summary judgment on trademark infringement and trade dress is denied. So is its illusory motion for copyright misuse. ... So that means damages ahead for Psystar on the copyright issues just decided on summary judgment, at a minimum. The court asked for briefs on that subject. In short, Psystar is toast." Reader UnknowingFool adds, "There are still issues to be decided but they are only Apple's allegations: breach of contract, induced breach of contract, trademark infringement, trademark dilution; trade dress infringement, state unfair competition, and common law unfair competition. Even if Psystar wins all of them, it is unlikely to help them very much."
Are they going to shoot up in value in the history of computers market?
This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi, it will soon see the end of Psystar.
Let's see:
Anti-SCO - check
Anti-MS - check
New entry Pro-Apple - check
It's even worse in the courts. Apple fanboys everywhere sitting on all those judicial benches.
I shake my angry fist at you Apple fanboys judges!
If you buy a copy of Windows, you can transfer it to a machine from any other vendor.
Further, you don't need to tie yourself to Windows at all anymore. If you develop for .NET, you can transfer to any system that supports that at any time.
Look, Daddy! I reformatted your windows partition as ext3!
Sure you do. Ever hear of a tiny company in Washington State named Microsoft?
@Mindless Drivel: 100% of Twitter posts ever Tweeted.
(or Linux)
"cui bono?"
His name is Chaz now. Chaz.
pervert :-P
More seriously, I moved from XP to OS X 10.4, and I've recently tried Windows 7. The control panel is now a complete monster! There are a couple of nice touches but there's plenty of suck too.